Social Question

Have you ever invented a saying or catch phrase?

What was it and what does it mean?
Did it catch on with other people?
How long were others saying it for?
Is it still used today by you or others around you?
How did you come about creating this saying or catch phrase?
What were the short term or long term effects of it?

My friend and I created “Upincheeya!” when we were teenagers. Don’t really know what it means, but I guess it is a combination of the saying “Up in here”. We used to yell it aloud throughout the neighborhood. We were strange folk.

A recent one I am trying to coin is “Wing-wang”. A slang term for the penis.

Okay, I say “Bob on” far too frequently, and I have yet to meet anyone who’s heard it before… although it makes perfect sense to me, so it must have come from somewhere???

(It’s the same meaning as spot on. In my head I imagine it comes from “bob” being a monetary value, and therefore if something is “bob on” then it’s exactly right, and therefore worth the money….... okay, I’ll get my coat.)

I thought I invented “fashion police” in 1992. My pals and I were walking down the street in NYC near Central Park when Lord, love a duck we spotted a woman dressed in a one-piece lime green shorts jumper… thing, black fishnet stockings, white 4” strappy sandals, a good two inches of salt and pepper roots from her bleached blonde head, turquoise and pink eye shadow and just troweled on make-up, anyway. She had to have been about 65.

Now, I was younger and ruder then, so as we walked past this woman walking her little Pekingese, I cupped my mouth with my hands, made the emergency sound and said aloud, “Woo!Woo!Woo! Fashion Police! Pull over! Pull over! You’re under arrest!”

The woman looked around to see who we were talking about. :|

I’m sure some genius came up with the phrase before me, but I don’t recall it being widely used before the 1990s.

I am wrong on this Fluther where ever I go or what ever I do so I am used to it. I just had never heard it before and certainly how I use it until Grumpy Old Men. Sorry about that I think I need to refrain from responding.

Apparently I have, just this week. A friend of mine observed that you can add the suffix ”-ed” to almost any noun and it will, to an Englishman, become a euphemism for getting drunk (eg, hammered, trolleyed, rat-arsed, etc). He gave a few examples, and I came up, totally at random, with “I’m going out to get totally catflapped tonight.” My friend thought it was epic, and has stolen it for his own personal use. :)

@harple my father and his family (who are from Norfolk) use “bob on” all the time.

I don’t like swear words which are mostly used to degrade other people, so I suggested using Plutoid, a planet which was degraded rather than the usual anatomical/sexual words that are misappropriated, but it didn’t catch on.

A couple of years back I started saying to my sister “I’m walking right beside you” meaning, I totally understand and support what you are saying. She liked my little phrase but adjusted it slightly to “I’m flying right beside you.” In my small world it stuck and the family uses it fairly frequently no. Now, I do not claim to be the only originator of this phrase, but I do believe that when I first said it I had not heard it anywhere before. Heck, I am not even sure I have ever heard it outside of my own family!

Sexcellent = Something that is so beyond excellent that it is somewhat sexy. “Wait they added fudge to that chocolate chip cookie?? Sexcellent.”

“That’s L.A.” = When something is so awful it reminds you of a horrible trip/experience in L.A. “That Uncle Julio’s was like eating in a mess hall and the staff was awful. You know what? That’s L.A.! That was so L.A.”

@Tropical_Willie Not to nitpick, but you said: Not me, but my wife. About forty years ago, “It’s the real thing” Yes, she was working a a Coke bottling plant long before they used it as a tag line. This was a commercial in 1969; about forty years ago.

Do I really need to tell you what it is? Everyone knows it (and loathe it with a passion), it has been spoofed more times than I see a Nixon mask on Halloween. The meaning is the same that what I am telling you I am delivering with all the truth and facts I know about it, I am not blowing smoke up your tail pipe. ;-)